Want to feel like a spy? Stick a smart chip in your manicure

A few months ago, I was filling my face with Christmas cookies and catching on the Netflix Season 3 RUN EPS Sood Ultimatum. This was a common Todari hour of reality TV. Klot’s hungry influence Wanbus dressed Nine, nursing his injuries, and remedying his minutes why his relationships fall before the global audience. In fact, like Ham. And after that, the cast member Zena Casey upgraded her beef in the 21st century and dragged me from the stool affected by the cookie.

“I have proof of text message,” he said, “he said, pointing to Nick Lachhi, the host of the C -list celebrity with a spread thumb. “I have a chip on my nail.”

Cut the zooming camera on the microchip. After Lachi scanned with his phone, the clean title of a folder appeared magically. I changed the cookies for popcorn. And at the same time, the audience of the studio, the whole of trick, and the reviewer collectively lost our minds.

Never say that you have not been able to find the gadget review from the television in the trash.

Finding a smart nail chip was easy. Mainly because the lead Post a video with help Explaining which chip he has purchased and how to arranges it. Jakcom n3 smart nail chip It comes in a set of five, 10, and 20, which costs about $ 20, $ 36, and $ 60. –

The life of a tech journalist is not as interesting as the TV star. Certainly, it involves keeping receipts, but there is no scenario where I’m going to lift the thumb embedded to the sky and “this is proof in Polish!”

So, what can I, an ordinary person, actually do with a smart nail chip?

For this, let’s back the real hurry. What is NFC Nile Chip? It is a small square that slips under or above your nail and allows you to tap your phone to work. I have used to send the text carefully during the meetings. While hitting the NJ Transit Bus, I used it to forward the iced coffee in the Star Box in the Port Authority South Wing. When I win the debate for my spouse (and cats and cats), I can occasionally use John Cena theme to sing. But none of the work you have to work, you will have to be able to scan the chip quickly, reliable and without surprise if the chip pops your nail.

With the default settings of the jack work, you allow you to compose links to social media profiles and contact information, e -commerce shop fronts and payment platforms such as eBay, Venmo, Paypal, Amazon, cash, and Shapi, Alibaba, and other popular people in Asia. Here is also a short set of “functions” such as writing “Finger Memoz” (this is a browser -based notepad), a daily AI infield maternity, and menstrual calculator. Theoretically, you can use it as a wireless storage device for data up to 128GB on a chip like a thumb drive, but I have never found this feature to work.

But before I know the best way to use this chip, I had another problem to solve. Nail polish chips and press -on nails are notorious pop -off. How do I connect this item to my nail and get it? Really Stick?

Scaning NFC Nail chip is not as smooth as paying subway or items at the store. I quickly learned that most people have no indication of where their phone is the NFC antenna. (First, I didn’t even.) Most iPhone owners, for example, looked like it was near the camera collision. It’s not – it’s fine with the upper edge of the phone. On Android, it can vary anywhere from the middle back to the upper peak of the phone. This usually meant that people would tap their phone on my nail and we would both stand there, waiting for something to happen. Most times, it ended with a friend or fellow worker who asked why when I just bothered to do this, why am I Text Inform them.

After three months of testing, I can now get a chip to scan 95 %. There was a lot of money, glue, and a little passionate determination to learn that I stopped questioning my decision. Like any manicure, it all boils on the appropriate preparation and application.

Each chip is a flexible 5 mm square, which is 0.12 mm thick, including adhesive backing. It is about the size of an arzer on an old school number 2 pencil, and is thin like hair straps. Somehow, it is sometimes too big and thick to apply easily.

Jook work instructions offer two options for application:

I tried the former. My natural nail may be unnaturally rotated, but I couldn’t find the chip to lie down. The edges were always raised. To flatter and cover the chip, I needed Polish generous globes. What I had to show for my efforts was a dirty, a knit nail. The use of hardly chic brush on glue and a clear top coat worked well, but it is not careful at all.

After my failures, I chose to try quietly with press tears. You can see my first attempt in these pictures, and I’m glad to say that he worked. Despite providing instructions on the use of conservative glue, my fellow workers and I successfully scan the chip. You get an NFC notice on your phone as you will be with instructions to open the link with another tag or automatically run the Apple shortcut app.

In one example, I set up a “Finger Memo” feature, a browser -based notepad that you can write anything, in which I joke “please save my chickens” (I don’t have chicken.) However, he slowly scanned. Unfortunately, this method is not sustainable or lasting. Although it is only 0.12 mm thin, placing the chip under the press on produces a lot of water from the water so that it can penetrate the glue and weaken. The next day after the shower it flew. I shone the nail again. He worked until I entered a hot tub two days later.

The nail was lost. The chip was destroyed.

Thus the weeks of trial and error began. After dozens of tickets on the application tutorial, worth $ 50 of nail sets, and A lot of Glow, I can now tell you that the best placement is the bottom edge of the medium -sized press on the long -length press. (See the picture above.) That allows you to put your nail and allow the chip easily. If you use several thin layers of brush on nail glue, you can “seal” the chip to wash the rains, bathrooms and utensils. However, I recommend to do re -research every few days.

If you were limited to the default programming of the junk work, I would say it was not really worthy of effort. But, you can also use the chip as a regular NFC tag. I have an iPhone, so I used the Apple shortcut app to re -program the chip on something more useful. (I didn’t have to test it on Android, but you can use apps like NFC tools or Tasters to do the same.)

For example, when I leave the office now I can program the nail chip to send my spouse to ETA. When I’m leaving, I scan my thumb, it opens my writings with my spouse, and Apple’s check -in timer features. I just have to send. As an alternative, I scan the chip and “I’m running late!” I can use the default shortcut automation to send. Notify my scheduled calendar events. I can also use it to open a star box or open shazam. The only limit is your creativity and programming ability.

Once the shortcut app was opened, I felt like James Bond, especially in the days when I would wear my ray bean meta smart glasses. I walk in the crowded places and no one will look at me that my glasses can record them and my manicure was a little chip to start recording the conversation while tape. I never used the latter out of the test. It is reduced to hidden microphone or recorder. But the thing is, if I want, I can do it, and it was cool and disturbing.

If I was a more dramatic person, I could see myself using this chip in a real small, dustian way. Thankfully, I am a mesh of limited patience for real -life drama.

This silence is understood only when you have a matter of use where discretion or convenience is key, the skill of programming effectively, the patience of examining it, and then the confidence to know it will work when needed. The more complicated this work will be made, the more you have ways to fail. Some ideas I tried either didn’t work because shortcuts could be fencing, or the mid -way through experience, I realized that it was faster to use my phone.

This is the victim of this problem. This is a theater, a glass of gazemo. I felt cool, and a little mysterious, wearing one. But for ordinary people who live in ordinary life, it requires a slight payment. May be Next year you will see me in CES using a business card. Exterior. , I will leave the dramatic style on Reality TV.